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Scarlett Driven to Distraction
Disneyland was anything but the happiest place on Earth for Scarlett Johansson.
The Lost in Translation star was on the giving end of a minor car accident Friday near the amusement park--an accident caused, her publicist says, as the actress tried to swerve to escape a crew of shutterbugs.
"The fender-bender was induced by the paparazzi, who chased her for 45 minutes," Johansson publicist Marcel Pariseau said in a statement Monday.
Anaheim Police Department spokesman Rick Martinez says the bang-up occurred around 1:50 p.m. No one hurt, and no one was cited for the accident.
"The two parties exchanged insurance information on their own, and no police report was filed to my knowledge," Martinez said Monday.
Martinez says that by the time officers arrived on the scene about an hour later, Johansson, who most recently starred in this summer's box-office dud The Island, had already left in a brand new Mercedes to replace her damaged one. (A Mercedes-Benz representative reportedly delivered an emergency loaner to the actress.)
Per eyewitnesses reports, Johansson, 20, and two friends were cruising to the Mouse House, paid to get into the Disneyland parking lot and were followed by four paparazzi-powered SUVs. Pariseau says Johansson veered sharply away from the trailing vheicles, clipping a Daihatsu with a woman and her two young daughters.
Arnold Cousart, one of the owners of JFX Direct photo agency, confirmed that two of his employees had been following Johansson for four days, along with photographers from a rival service. But he refutes Pariseau's contention that it was the shutterbugs who caused the accident.
"Our photographers were about a block [behind her] when the collision occurred," Cousart told the Los Angeles Times. "She was basically by herself...There wasn't any car behind her closer than 40 yards."
Johansson is the latest A-list motorist who has claimed to have been victimized by aggressive paparazzi maneuvers.
Back in May, Lindsay Lohan was involved in a more serious accident, when photographer Galo Ramirez reportedly rammed her Mercedes-Benz with his van while chasing the actress.
Lohan suffered cuts and bruises from the smash-up and was left "shaken up and extremely upset," by the incident, which her publicist described as intentional.
A criminal probe was launched in Los Angeles and authorities are still weighing whether to charge Ramierez for assault with a deadly weapon.
In April, Reese Witherspoon claimed she was chased by several paparazzi and prevented from entering the gated community where she lives. Earlier this month Los Angeles prosecutors said that while the photographers in question most likely used aggressive tactics and terrorized Witherspoon, there was insufficent evidence to charge them with false imprisonment.
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